Monrovia, sentence 59
From Wikipedia, «Monrovia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
It is the wettest capital city in the world, with annual rainfall averaging 182 in.
Who acts: climate, annual rainfall · What happens: be, average · To what, where: wettest capital city, world, 182
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Monrovia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (climate, annual rainfall), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 city | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 city | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 4 | wettest | wet | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 city | amod |
| 5 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 city | compound |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 world | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 world | det |
| 9 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 city | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rainfall | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 rainfall | case |
| 12 | annual | annual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rainfall | amod |
| 13 | rainfall | rainfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 city | conj |
| 14 | averaging | average | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 rainfall | acl |
| 15 | 182 | 182 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 averaging | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 averaging | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 city | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | climate | the wettest capital city and annual rainfall | the world | annual rainfall conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | average | gerund | annual rainfall not said here | 182 | vn multiply-108-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 182=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: the English Wikipedia, «Monrovia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tree: Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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